NYC - Alexander Wright arrested for beating MTA worker, 2022

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" He’s not going the MTA’s way. On Friday, Metropolitan Transportation Authority chief Janno Lieber asked a Bronx court to banish an alleged subway attacker, Alexander Wright, from the transit system for three years. Bans like this can make police work easier — but without a functional justice system to begin with, they’re not worth the paper they’re printed on.

Wright is exactly who subway workers and riders are afraid of these days.

On Aug. 11, at The Bronx’s Pelham Bay Park station, he was harassing women. When transit worker Anthony Nelson came to help them, Wright brutally knocked him to the ground, breaking his shoulder and nose."

 

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Career criminal who attacked NYC subway worker deemed unfit to stand trial

“Justice Morales remanded the defendant to a psychiatric facility until he is deemed fit to stand trial,” Bronx District Attorney Darcel Clark said in a statement.

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Alexander Wright, 49, was charged with viciously assaulting MTA employee Anthony Nelson, 35, after he stopped the suspect from harassing straphangers in the Pelham Bay Park train station on Aug. 11.

The beating left Nelson hospitalized with a broken collarbone and dislocated nose.

On Thursday, Bronx Supreme Court Justice Connie Morales ruled that Wright will not stand trial on assault charges due to his mental state.

 

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From 21 January 2026: A new psych evaluation for Alexander Wright.

Judge Orders New Psych Eval in Subway Cleaner Assault Case

Veteran transit worker Anthony Nelson has waited almost four years to see his accused attacker go to trial in The Bronx.

www.thecity.nyc

Transit workers show support for MTA cleaner attacked in Bronx subway station

The 38-year-old subway cleaner suffered a broken nose and collarbone and underwent three surgeries but he is still struggling to this day.

abc7ny.com